This two-year program provides students with the opportunity to learn about early childhood education in a clinical setting with 3- to 5-year-old preschool children throughout the school year. Kinder Magic is an on-site learning center where students can implement and test their planned lessons and activities focused on areas such as daily themes, story time, art, music, and special events. The program’s curriculum is based on professional standards, which provides students the ability to earn seminar hours towards the national Child Development Associate (CDA) credential.

This one-year program is for the student that has a desire to work in the educational field and plans to pursue a 4-year college degree. The Teacher Academy program was designed to give students an opportunity to obtain exposure to the vast number of occupations in the educational field while providing hands-on experience in a variety of settings. Students must have their own transportation as the program requires students participate in multiple professional internships in their selected discipline throughout the year with cooperating county school districts. Students will be dually enrolled at Raritan Valley Community College and earn 3 credits in Foundations of Education. As part of the program, students will have created a professional teaching portfolio aligned to the NJ Professional Teaching standards.